Trial postponed for Kandi Siveny, who was charged in Lara Plamann beating plot

Feb. 12, 2011 7:03 AM

Written by

Jim Collar

Post-Crescent staff writer

APPLETON — A Minnesota woman's trial on charges that arose from an ongoing homicide investigation was postponed Friday as her attorney seeks access to investigative records related to the 2007 gunshot death.

Kandi M Siveny, 31, was scheduled to stand trial Feb. 22 in Outagamie County Court. She's charged with solicitation of substantial battery and criminal damage to property stemming from incidents in 2006 and 2007.

Instead, Judge Michael Gage will hear arguments Feb. 24 on whether her attorney should have access to the investigative file on the 2007 homicide of Lara Plamann.

Siveny is accused of offering money to a Minnesota man in 2006 to beat Plamann to the point of hospitalization. The attack was not carried out.

Plamann, who was the domestic partner of Siveny's mother, Dianna Siveny, was found dead of a gunshot in October 2007 in a shed at the Greenville home they shared. No charges have been filed in connection with her death.

Dianna Siveny, who is also charged in the beating plot, is seeking access to the homicide file as well. Judge Harold Froehlich heard arguments, but hasn't made a decision.

Dist. Atty. Carrie Schneider objected to the release of the file in Dianna Siveny's case because it contains sensitive information.

"Release of that early on can be very detrimental," she said last month.

Dan Clausz, the attorney for Kandi Siveny, said the file would benefit the defense by showing how police came in contact with a number of witnesses.

Gage didn't immediately reschedule the trial. He denied a defense request that the substantial battery and criminal damage to property counts be tried separately.

The property damage charge is related to vandalism done in August 2007 to a car owned by another woman with whom Plamann had a relationship.

Minnesota resident Rosie Campbell told investigators she traveled to Appleton with Kandi Siveny in 2007 to damage the car at Dianna Siveny's request. Dianna Siveny was out of town with Plamann and the car's owner when the car was vandalized, according to court records.